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Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with you,

but not without you. I want to go to another story because it really is important in terms of

what's happening in terms of a geostrategic reorientation of not only global politics, but the global

economy as a consequence of the Russian military

intervention, the invasion into Ukraine, and the U.S. sanctions against Russia. It's not just the U.S.

It's like Samir Amin said. It's the United States leading global imperialism, including Western Europe,

eastern parts of the Central Europe and Eastern Europe, which are some of them very big

economies, but still kind of not the dominant imperialist players, of course, but in that camp,

and Japan. Here's an article from Wall Street Journal from just a few days ago. Russia's oil ban

accelerates shift in global energy flows. Russian crude is increasingly heading to China in India,

while Middle East producers are trying to sell more oil to Europe.

Now, this is really important because everybody, I think, knows that in order to sanction Russia

and to deplete Russia and to deplete its income base and its revenue, the United States got

the West European countries and Japan to

agree that there would be a price cap on Russian oil, that no one would buy Russian oil for

more than $60, even if it was selling on the world market at $80 or $90 a barrel or $100 a

barrel, that this would be the price cap. So the U.S.

wanted everything to go in all directions that would be beneficial to its plans. So they want to

punish Russia by decreasing Russian revenues on oil, but they still wanted access for Western

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